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The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), in collaboration with the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) and the University of Cambridge, was delighted to host a research seminar entitled “Resilience and Global Risks”.

Date: 2021.12.15 (Wed.)
Time: 17:00-19:00(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar(ZOOM)
Subject: “Resilience and Global Risks”

Speaker: Dr. Matthijs Maas (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk University of Cambridge)

Speaker: Professor Hideaki Shiroyama (Director of Institute for Future Initiatives, Professor of Graduate School of Public Policy and Graduate Schools for Law and Politics)

Moderator: Dr. Yee-Kuang Heng (Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Through December 10th-11th, 2021, the 13th annual conference “Five University Conference” was held online.

Theme “New Forms of Cooperation”
Date: 2021.12.10(Fri.)-2020.12.11(Sat.)
Time: 08:30-11:30
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Host: Security Studies Unit (SSU), the Institute for Future Initiatives, UTokyo

Session1: Facing cross-national risks: Global, regional, and national responses
Session2: Politics of regionalism: Integration and confrontation
Session3: Managing a global economy in a nation-first world
Session4: What is to be done? The future of liberal international order in age of realism

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Date: 2021.12.10 (Fri.)
Time: 16:00-17:30am(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)

※This meeting was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives was delighted to host a research seminar entitled “Current and Future of US-China Competitions over the Development of Critical Technologies: How Much Government-led Approaches Matter?”.

Date: 2021.12.09(Thu.)
Time: 10:00-11:10
Venue: Online (Webinar)

Opening Remarks: Kiichi Fujiwara (Professor, Graduate School of Low and Politics, The University of Tokyo)
Key Note Speech 1: Jacqueline Deal (President CEO, The Long Term Strategy Group)
Key Note Speech 2: Jaehwan LIM (Professor, the School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Discussant 1: Satoru Mori (Professor, Department of Global Politics, Faculty of Law, Housei University)
Discussant 2 & Moderator: Ryo Sahashi (Associate Professor, International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On November 20, 2021, this year’s “Japan Korea Dialogue” was held online.
“10th Korea-Japan Dialogue on East Asian Security (2021)”

Date: 2021.11.20(Sat.)
Time: 14:00-17:40
Venue: Online (Webinar)
Hosts: Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), University of Tokyo
Program on US-China Relations(PUCR), Seoul National University

Session1: the US-China Strategic Competition and the Indo-Pacific
Sesson2: ROK-China Relations, Japan-China Relations, and the Indo-Pacific

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Date: 2021.10.28 (Thu.)
Time: 13:30-14:45am(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)

※This meeting was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Date: 2021.07.28 (Wed.)
Time: 11:00-12:30am(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)

※This meeting was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

SSU published No.4 working paper as the outcome of MOFA Grant Research Project “US-China Competition and Securitization of Critical and Emerging Technologies: Evaluating Policy-making Process and Impacts on Globalized Economy”.

“Can “China Model” Compete?: Evolving State Capitalism and Military-Civil Fusion Strategy/Jaehwan Lim (Aoyama Gakuin University)